Hustling Is Not Stealing:
Stories of an African Bar Girl
Introduction
- Excerpt from “Junior Wife”
- Preamble: Stories and Their Critics
- Africa: The End of the Earth Where the World Began
- The Politico-economic Techno-philosophical Socio-historical Global-developmental Backdrop
- The View from Ground Level
- Cities as the Heavens of this Earth <PDF>
- Commodity Traders
- Digression on the End of the World
- Ethnography to the Second Power
- The Brer Rabbit School of Feminism
Part One: Into The Life
Chapter 1: Not Bad as Such
- Like a Letter
- The Village of Don't–Go–There
- More Aunts
- A Brief Adolescence
- Junior Wife
Chapter 2: The Life
- Paradise Hotel
- Cheap Money
- The Price of Tea
- Janet's Baby
- The Problem of Being Small
- Married without a Ring
- Reflections: After the First Year as Ashawo
Chapter 3: Problems of Self–Empowerment
- Repaying Rough with Rough
- The Lebanese Twins
- Deviant Sex
- Really Deviant Sex
- Wounds
- What No Girl Says
- Butterfly Wings
- The Man with Four Noses
- Case Histories
Part Two: With the British in a Provincial Capital
Chapter 4: The Chief of Bagabaga
- Nigel's Courtship
- The Two Wives of the Chief of Bagabaga
- Jack Toronto
- Roads Not Taken
Chapter 5: Fucking English People
- William and Abena <PDF>
- Reflections: Property and Family
- Power Show for Cigarettes
- Cool-Catch-Monkey
- Nigel's Mouth
- A Beating among Friends
Part Three: Into the Life Again
Chapter 6: Avoiding the Life
- A Ghanaian Boyfriend
- Reflections: An Independent Life
Chapter 7: With Jacqueline
- To Go to Togo
- At Podo's House
- The Turkey–Tail Man
Chapter 8: A Bad Sickness <PDF>
- The Treatment
- Love and the Banana
Part Four: Juju
Chapter 9: The Sheer Ubiquity of It
- Issahaku's Medicine
- Christmas for a Juju
- The Keta Girls and the Seaman
Chapter 10: Witches
- Witchfire
- Babies as Strangers
- The Witchcraft of the Senior Mother
- Belief in Witches
- Befriending a Witch
- Interlude: A Special Child
- Befriending a Witch (Conclusion)
- Revenge of a Bedwetter
Chapter 11: Child of the God
- A Wonderful Man
- Pennies in the Hair
- Interlude: Village Playtime
- Return to the Village
- From Frying Pan to Fire
- Reckoning with the God
Chapter 12: Black Power
- Calling the Lost People
- The Master of the Dwarves
- Showing the Power
Part Five: The Life in Togo
Chapter 13: A Fast Boy
- The Rich Biafran
- Frankie and Antonio
- Frankie's Game
Chapter 14: A Nice Prison in Togo <PDF>
- Django and the Fucking Germans
- Interlude: The Maidservant's Tale
- Louky's Problem
- Prisoners for the Lions
- If All the Prisons Were like This
- Fish from the Sea in Vaginas
- Coda
Chapter 15: I Remember Mama
- Drunkards
- The Trouble with Three Friends
- Quarreling in Secret
- Killer Girls from Ghana
Epilogue
Glossary
Exchange Is Not Robbery:
More Stories of an African Bar Girl
Prologue
Part One: The Life in Ouaga
Chapter 1: A Stranger at Home
- Love That Makes One Sick
- The Story of Woman
- Getting an Identity Card
- Virginity as a Fatal Disease
Chapter 2: Working Girls
- Working at La Tringle
- Mama Gets a Boyfriend
- The Village Nightclub
- Mama Amma and Her Two Boyfriends
- Limata and Her Old Man
- The Short Big Man Who Liked to Dance
Part Two: The Human Face of Neocolonialism
Chapter 3: Fucking French People
- The French Nightclub
- The French Ashawos
- The Godfather
- Not Crazy, Just Stupid
Chapter 4: Konkonsa Research
- Mr. Heh–heh–heh
- The Belgian Prisoner
- Interrogations
- Hope
- Shetu and Philippe
- The Trouble with Frogs
Part Three: Hawa Contextualizes Her Life
Chapter 5: Papa's Sickness
- Transition: Money Matters
- Country Roads at Night
- The First Useless Child
Chapter 6: The Big Fight in the Family <PDF>
- The Two Wives
- The Big Fight
- Interlude: Big Brother
- The Big Fight (Conclusion)
Chapter 7: Life with Father
Chapter 8: Village Comedies
- The Sense of Villagers
- Introduction to Western Civilization
- A Strange Case at the Chief's Court
- How Children Get Sense
- Good and Bad Strangers
- Special Tea
- Pro-pro Ghana Babies
- Papa and the Tigernut Lady
- Special Agent
Chapter 9: Young Love in the Village
- The Sister Who Refused Marriage
- Marrying Sisters
- Escape to Bobo
- Further Varieties of Village Seduction
- A Village Courtship
- Catching Chickens
- The Sweetness of Villages
Part Four: African Independence
Chapter 10: Problems of Multiculturalism
- Stuck in the Village
- Ten and a Half Languages
- Undercover Research
- I Could Sell Her in Accra
Chapter 11: Babes in the Woods
- The Smell of a Place
- Passage by Contract
- Ghana Girls in Ouaga
- Togo Girls in Ouaga
- A Greenhorn
Chapter 12: The Ashawo Alternative
- Women for Themselves
- The Patience of a Mossi Mistress
- Who Wants to Live in an Institution?
- The Issue of an Issue
- Serial Monogamy
- Private Ashawo
Chapter 13: Sex Stories from The Life
- Not a Captain of Sexing
- The Dilemma of Big Pricks
- Limata's Boyfriend
- Ginger for Sex Workers
- The Italian Man with a Prick Problem
Chapter 14: The Game
- Something like a Thief
- The Poor Man Who Tore Limata's Dress
- Customer Relations
- Popularity Party
- Revenge of the Men
- The Price of Champagne